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Back on board at Manchester’s Chill Factore
- 30.06.2021
- JessicaMG
- Personal-injury
One of our personal injury clients and brain injury survivor, Will, recently enjoyed a snowboarding session at Manchester's Chill Factore with our Gary Herbert. Read more here.
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Storm Keating unlikely to regain full use of leg due to cauda equina syndrome
- 30.06.2021
- JessicaMG
- Clinical-negligence
The wife of Boyzone’s Ronan Keating, Storm, has recently found out that she is unlikely to ever regain full use of her right leg due to damage caused by a rare severe spinal condition - cauda equina syndrome - that developed earlier this year. Our Lesley Herbertson comments here.
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Sometimes I'm scared of you: Britney’s Conservatorship
- 24.06.2021
- IsobelCairns
- Court-of-Protection
US pop star Britney Spears has addressed a Los Angeles court telling judge that she has been drugged, forced to perform against her will and prevented from having children, as she asked the Court to end a conservatorship that has governed her life for the last 13 years.
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Austrian hospital admit amputating wrong leg of patient
- 16.06.2021
- JessicaMG
- Clinical-negligence
In a case of serious medical negligence, surgeons at an Austrian hospital have admitted amputating the wrong leg of a patient, blaming human error for what the hospital called a ‘tragic mistake’.
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472 serious healthcare incidents reported in England between 2019 - 2020
- 11.06.2021
- JessicaMG
- Clinical-negligence
A recent Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch report into serious healthcare incidents in the NHS found that 472 incidents were reported in England between 2019 and 2020, including one in which a woman was given an invasive gynaecological procedure instead of fertility treatment after she was wrongly identified as another patient.
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Featured Charity: ACSIL - Amputees and Carers Support in Liverpool
- 24.05.2021
- JessicaMG
- Clinical-negligence, Personal-injury
This month, as part of our ongoing Featured Charity blog, we are shining a spotlight on ACSIL - Amputees and Carers Support in Liverpool, a charity set up to help and support amputees across Liverpool and Merseyside.
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Concussion spotters to be used at 2022 World Cup
- 17.05.2021
- JessicaMG
- Personal-injury
Concussion spotters are to be introduced at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar; it has been announced. The news comes after concerns that repeated concussions could lead to long term health problems such as dementia.
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Action for Brain Injury Week 2021
- 17.05.2021
- JessicaMG
- Clinical-negligence, Court-of-Protection, Personal-injury
Today marks the start of Headway's Action for Brain Injury Week 2021. This year's campaign theme is "A life of lockdown?" which will focus on social isolation after brain injury - an issue that has been intensified by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Smart motorways up to a third deadlier than roads with hard shoulders
- 05.05.2021
- JessicaMG
- Personal-injury
Official recent figures show that the death rate on smart motorways is up to a third higher compared to motorways with hard shoulders.
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